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In my old mainframe world, you could get a generic product key that would allow the packages to run in a VM machine.
I have done a lot of Googling to no avail on this subject, so I thought I wold go to the source and ask this list.
Thank you in advance, Duaine Quite a few years ago, I worked for a man (a company VP) who was very computer-oriented. He had one of the first IBM PC's that came out. Small CPM lan before that. He probably knew more about operating systems
On 01/20/2011 12:54 AM, Mike McMullin wrote: than anyone else in the fairly large company, including the it people. He kept up with the Microsoft releases, and had a subscription, I imagine it was with M/S itself, where he would get new releases of everything on just about a monthly basis. All the Windows releases he got came with a "universal" key--he could install as many as he wanted, wherever he wanted. He had his own subgroup doing software for a big country- wide network related to security systems, and they all had copies of the latest M/S software, and since I was one of the few people outside of the software group who was relatively hip on computing, I got to install Windows 98 shortly after it became available. At any rate, yes, there were "universal" keys for lan-type installs, but I don't know what he paid for the subscription, or, conversely, maybe M/S paid him as a beta-tester, I just don't know the details. And of course, there were _real_ lan-wide licenses, where I guess there was a single key for the lan. GOK what the lan-wide key cost! (The company lan, when it was created, ran on an IBM system, not Microsoft, but all the clients were Windows. The server ran on some IBM version of Unix, or something very like it. I don't remember the name.) But _you_ are not likely to find a universal key anywhere. OTOH, on one of the Linux lists very recently I read that XP-Pro now does not need any key--maybe since it was officially discontinued about 2 or 3 months ago. Where you get a version that doesn't need a key, I don't know. Maybe someone reading here has the answer. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org